A Few Green Leaves Quotes

“He had sometimes attempted to keep a diary himself, the kind of record of his daily life that could rival famous clerical diarists of the past, a nineteen-seventies Woodforde or Kilvert. What was he to write about the events of this morning? ‘My sister Daphne made a gooseberry tart and told me that she was going to live on the outskirts of Birmingham’? Could that possibly be of interest to readers of the next century?”
― Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

“Too late for coffee, too early for drink -though when was it ever too early for a glass of Tio Pepe, slightly chilled?”
― Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

“There was something obscurely humiliating about going into town on the bus, Emma felt, beginning with her not knowing what the fare was and having to fumble for the right coins when she entered.”
― Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

“A few green leaves can make such a difference.”
― Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

“Yes, so she knows her failings. Heather was a librarian,' he added, as if this might explain the failings.”
― Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

“The clergy nowadays seldom included the weather in their prayers....”
― Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

“Presumably older women shouldn't drink, she thought, or women of a certain age. But what might that age be?”
― Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves